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To most people "the latest fiction" means the latest novels or stories rather than the most recently invented pretense or latest lie. All three senses of the word fiction point back to its source, Latin ficti?, "the action of shaping, a feigning, that which is feigned." Ficti? in turn was derived from fingere, "to make by shaping, feign, make up or invent a story or excuse." Our first instance of fiction, recorded in a work composed around 1412, was used in the sense "invention of the mind, that which is imaginatively invented." It is not a far step from this meaning to the tall tale you are about tell Brink.
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THE BUDAPEST SOLUTION PART 2
THE BUDAPEST SOLUTION, PART 2
Andras slammed both hands against the steering wheel. "Damn it! What a fucking amateur move that was!" Tibor looked undisturbed by this problem. "So he made us, so what?" Andras looked at him with scorn. "So what? So what? So he knows he’s being watched and now he stops and we never get him. That’s so what!" Tibor says, "He stops that’s what we want right. No more killings." Andras shook his head, "You stupid fool, he keeps killing he eventually makes a mistake or we happen to have him under observation during an attack and we have him." About that time Andras’ cell phone rang.
"OK we are in Eger, we’ll be right there, give me directions." Tibor looked at him, "Who..what?" Andras started the car and spun the tires leaving the curb, no small feat in a Lada, the Russian built cars are rugged but have little power. "It seems our American friend has put another notch in his belt."
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